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alt-J
The Dream [Digital Deluxe]
Oceans Are Forming (Demo)

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Oceans Are Forming (Demo)

Release date: 16th February 2022

From The Dream [Digital Deluxe]

About This Track

"Oceans Are Forming (Demo)" is a track by alt-J, from the album The Dream [Digital Deluxe], released 16th February 2022. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 10 articles about alt-J.

About the Artist

alt-J

alt-J

Lyrics

Oceans Are Forming (Demo)

[Refrain]

Window

I can smell the fires burning

Down San Francisco

Down San Francisco

I can smell the fires burning

From my window

From my window

From my window

From my window

From my window

From my window

I can smell the fires burning

Down San Francisco

Down San Francisco

Down San Francisco

Down San Francisco

Down San Francisco

Down San Francisco

[Verse 1]

I can smell the fires burning

I hear from the garden

The gardener calling

A note left from a friend

He writes to the lovers

The lovers afraid

To love, yeah

[Verse 2]

My flesh

Feels not my own

I watch time reversing

Over a garden

Over a garden

I watch time reversing

Over a garden

Over a garden

I watch time reversing

[Outro]

Oceans are forming

Oceans are forming

Oceans are forming

Oceans are forming

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From The Dream [Digital Deluxe]

2022

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Album

The Dream [Digital Deluxe]

Release year

2022

—Hard Drive Gold (Loor Remix)
—U&ME (The De Beauvoir Session)
—Get Better (The De Beauvoir Session)
—Matilda (The De Beauvoir Session)
—Oceans Are Forming (Demo)

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